School Mapping using Geographic Information System

Enormous amount of data generated daily with the growing digital world. The geospatial data is also among this, which can be used for the betterment of location based services to the society. Regardless of the substantial resources, there has not been a significant growth in the quality of education in the schools particularly in rural areas of Maharashtra. There is a need to create a community driven GIS based portal which will help to contribute as well as gain information about the schools in Maharashtra. This will provide the school data as well as correlations between different demographic aspects including performance of the aspects. Apart from this, a platform is required for the community to contribute in evaluations and validation of school data through crowd sourcing. An attempt has been made to address some of the gaps in the administration and to gain insights about the schools in Maharashtra through GIS. School-GIS combine school information with GIS application and is open to the public to assist about the quality of schools. Various information query and display methods are provided in the system, including reviewing, rating, dynamic query and developing choropleth maps for analysis and decision-making on spatial educational problems for a given locality.